Adafruit have published a new tutorial written by David Hunt who created the PiPhone, a Raspberry Pi-powered mobile, or cell, phone. It uses a lot of components, all available via Adafruit, but it’s a stunning piece of hacking. Read more…
Category: GPIO boards
Tetris on a Raspberry Pi using the PiLite
Here’s a bit of fun. Over at piecesofpi.co.uk, Stephen has created a Tetris implementation using a Python library that allows the use of a Ciseco PiLite as a display. Read more here – the code is available on GitHub. See…
Raspberry Pi Foundation weather station project enters field-test phase
According to the latest Education newsletter, a weather station project run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and funded by Oracle, is entering it’s prototype testing phase. The weather station is primarily a HAT add-on board with a few peripherals developed by Dave Honess. A…
Creating a Raspberry Pi video capture unit
Matt Hawkins has now reached 150 blog posts and to celebrate this, he’s written a three-part guide to creating a video capture unit using a Raspberry Pi, suitable for mounting to your dashboard or bike. You can read the first…
DIY Raspberry Pi GPIO LEDs and switches board
A blogger at PiecesOfPi.co.uk decided that he (or, indeed, she) wanted to build a GPIO board for themselves. So, they’ve taken a piece of stripboard, some LEDs and a few switches and done just that. He’s posted all the diagrams so you…
Make a digital garden with the Raspberry Pi and the Pibrella
Here’s a great video from Carrie Anne Philbin on her YouTube channel the Geek Gurl Diaries. In this, she uses the Pi, a Pibrella, some motors and bits and pieces, together with a Python script, to create a ‘digital garden’. It’s…
Get a Christmas tree for your Raspberry Pi and learn Charlieplexing!
Andrew Gale from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire did some great little robot soldering kits for the CamJam in September. He’s now branching out (ha-ha… oh, wait… that joke doesn’t make sense yet) into Christmas trees (see… branching out? branch… Never mind). He’s…
Raspberry Pi-powered pumpkin
It’s almost Halloween. Joy. Allen Heard has taken a pumpkin, a Pi and a Pibrella and mixed it with some other basic electronics to create a scary object to sit on his doorstep. Here’s a video of it and you…
Raspberry Pi Compute Module IO Board CAD files released
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the release of the CAD files for the Compute Module IO Board. Here’s what they say about the format that they’ve been released in: The design files are the Cadence OrCAD schematic file, Cadence…
EduBoard – a multi-function board and OLED display for the Raspberry Pi
There have been lots of boards on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo for the Pi, and here’s another one – a really fun, educational one. This one is called the EduBoard and features the following: 1 x RGB LED 1 x OLED…